MISS OTIS REGRETS

Created on 21/01/2002
Latest update on 09/03/2024

Artist: Lew Stone & His Band
Author: Cole Porter
Label: Decca
Year: 1934

In London theatre show Hi Diddle Diddle. Vocal: Nat Gonella. In fact much older than that. One of many party songs Cole Porter wrote in the 1920s, this one for his friend Monty Woolley while impersonating a butler. That same Woolley sang it in the biographical film Night And Day in '46. Can also be seen as a lyrical blueprint for Tout va très bien Mme la Marquise.

Covers:

1934:

Ethel Waters

1934:

Douglas Byng

1934:

Jimmie Lunceford

1934:

Mills Brothers

1934:

Alberta Hunter

1946:

Josh White

1948:

Edith Piaf

1950:

Marlène Dietrich

1957:

Ella Fitzgerald

1959:

Lonnie Donegan

1969:

José Feliciano

1976:

Stéphane Grappelli

1990:

Kirsty MacColl & The Pogues [in medley with other Cole Porter song Just One Of Those Things]

1990:

Bette Midler

1993:

Lemonheads

1998:

Katy Moffatt

1999:

Bryan Ferry

2001:

Brendan Croker [live in Café Forum, Maastricht]

2017:

Gregory Porter

2018:

Lady Lynn

2018:

Van Morrison & Joey Defrancesco

The lyrics suggest Miss Otis must have been of mixed blood since she's dragged from her prison cell by a mob to get lynched. So this is a Tout va très bien Madame la Marquise in overdrive.

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